[Users] windows 8 guest support

[Jim Kinney]

I have same issue with Windows 8 32-bit.

HOWEVER! 64-bit does install fine and work well. No qxl driver will load
and no vsd process will run (wrong windows version error - working on git
source compile now).

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Jithin Raju <rajujith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Itamar,
>
> I tried installing windows8 enterprise 32 bit as ovirt guest but
> bootloader failed to load with error 0x00005d .
> host machine support vt & vt-d.
> Same thing is happening while installing windows 8 in centos 6.2 host.
> windows8 is not listed in guest support option in ovirt 3.1/rhel 6.3.
>
> some google results showed that its because windows 8 is not supporting
> IDE.
> There is no option for sata controller in any of the above virtualization
> solutions.
> If its happening due to some other thing could you please let me know the
> how to make it work.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jithin
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 01/16/2013 02:14 PM, Jithin Raju wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Windows 8 guest is supported in ovirt?
>>> Any plan since it has some issues with qemu sata support.
>>>
>>
>> can you please elaborate on the issue?
>>
>
>
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